Shirley Somuah

Shirley is a Partner at CardinalStone Capital Advisers, a West Africa focused private equity fund manager that provides growth capital to high potential SMEs. She is passionate about transformational impact at scale and has over a decade of experience spanning management consulting and investing. Prior to CCA, Shirley was a Vice President on the Principal Investments team at CardinalStone Partners, and before that was a management consultant with Oliver Wyman, serving clients in North America, the Middle East and Africa from the New York and Dubai offices. She holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BSc. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. She chairs the Board of the non-profit West Africa Vocational Education.